Two new empoascine leafhopper genera, Thaioasca and Mjolnirus, from Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), with a checklist of Empoascini in Thailand

Yi-Mei Wang; Y E Xu; Dmitry A Dmitriev; Christopher H Dietrich; Dao-Zheng Qin

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.4

Two new empoascine leafhopper genera, Thaioasca and Mjolnirus, from Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), with a checklist of Empoascini in Thailand

Zootaxa. 2021 Jan 21;4915(2):zootaxa.4915.2.4. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.4.

Authors

Yi-Mei Wang¹, Y E Xu, Dmitry A Dmitriev, Christopher H Dietrich, Dao-Zheng Qin

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest AF University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China. user@example.com.

PMID: 33756573
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.4

Abstract

Two new microleafhopper genera of Empoascini, Thaioasca Wang, Xu Qin, gen. nov. and Mjolnirus Wang, Xu Qin, gen. nov., based on the type species, Thaioasca contaminata Wang, Xu Qin, sp. nov. and Mjolnirus mediolobus Wang, Xu Qin, sp. nov. are described from Thailand. Male habitus photos and illustrations of male genitalia of these two new species are given. A checklist of Empoascini from Thailand is also provided.

Keywords: Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, microleafhopper, morphology, taxonomy, distribution.

MeSH terms

Animals
Hemiptera*
Male
Thailand